In the debut issue of Child of Words, the magazine of science fiction and fantasy,
you’ll meet a freed slave who returns to his tribe too late to marry his beloved and young
urbanites who lease out their brain capacity to corporate masters. You’ll travel with a man
with a sapling for a sibling and assassins killing time. You’ll mourn with parents missing a
son and cheer a man who finds family in an unlikely place. You’ll be touched by a woman who
feels the past, duck bombs with an executive with a need for speed, and root for an unlikely
warrior who saves the damn day.

Fiction
"Kingcrux" by Betsy Dornbusch
"Let Us Use That For Which You Have No Use" by Stephen Ross
"Planting Robert" by John F.D. Taff
"Killing Time" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
"Spin Cycle" by Selina Rosen
"The Tavern of the First Village" by Michael Andre-Driussi
"Attila’s Throne" by Fi Michell
"Hard Rain" by Ian D. Smith
"Mad Dog Saves the Damn Day" by DeAnna Knippling